The Villagers on CNN Want to Make Sure No One Blames Palin for Arizona Assassination Attempt
The Village was out in full force yesterday, making sure that no one dared to blame Sarah Palin and her map of targets for the attempted assassination attempt on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Heaven forbid we might be allowed to ask if the woman who has been using elininationist rhetoric since the presidential campaign might be held accountable for the general political climate in this country that has made overt racism, hatred and bigotry mainstream.
These pundits know they've completely fallen down on their jobs for the last two years with the way they've covered the right wing and they're giving themselves cover here as well. They've been more worried about sucking up to power than letting anyone know that one of our political parties has allowed the inmates to take over the asylum. And even after someone's been shot, they're still giving Palin cover for her over the top, dangerous rhetoric.




true, true, but then the media sucks up to obama also, very few hard questions about the undeclared, illegal wars, but then that is not the point of today's post.
stated in another comment that one hopes sister sarah (warrior princess for god) is just ignorant when she puts out her nifty little target map on twitter, she must be so proud to be able to put out a grapghic like that; well now she can be so proud that ms. giffords is probably brain-damaged, and five other people are dead.
the reason one hopes that the warrior princess is plain ignorant is that ignorance can be remedied with education, now stupid, you can't fix that.
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addendum - to be honest and thorough, the other possibility, however remote, is that ms. warrior princess is neither stupid nor ignorant, and that her tweets reflect either an acknowledged or unacknowleged truth about her personality and views, and that it is just fine with her if someone targeted this lady for assassination; no matter, that is the actuality on the ground.
that Palin writes her own tweets? That's a job for some low-level toady at Palin Inc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AOfbnGkuGc
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Think maybe this would have been a opportunity for ms. quitter to MAN UP!.--to use her quote!..She and the rest including the cnn chirpers are culpable ..No question --no cover..!..
Think the 'coward' is showing its spots!
People get scared. They get angry. They want stuff. Sex is pleasurable.
"DC" is more than the politicians. It's the Village. It's the 24/7 media. It's 5th avenue (NYC, yes, I know). It's the shiny glass buildings in MD, WV, and Virginia owned by the warprofiteers. It's Fox.
Wolf Blitzer knows better than anyone else the mountains of money that is behind all this. It's in the trillions.
Did Blitzer ever shoot down the WMD-Saddam claims? He could have, he did it in this clip: Yellin stated unequivocally that there is no link between Palin and Loughner. When it's their useful idiot, they fall over themselves trying to inoculate her. But when it's the lives of our soldiers and the lives of millions of foreigners, they don't give a fuck.
It was these CNN villagers which mentioned the social media focus on Palin. It was CNN which ran the clips of Palin's web page and Gifford's response.
For them to then interject that there is no direct connection between the shooter and Palin
does not say they want to make sure no one blames Palin. It says they want to get away with bringing up Palin without anyone accusing THEM of blaming Palin.
The post with Lamar Alexander and Candy Crowley is yet another example of this.
"We in the media may not want to blame Palin, by God, but we sure won't miss a chance to mention her."
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
I have absolutely no qualms with blaming Plain. She is a secessionist. She made death threats against the US Government. If someone does that and one of their supporters assassinates those political enemies, then they're no longer a politician, they are a scum of the earth terrorist. I don't need to see marching orders. If you don't want to be guilty then don't tacitly suggest that someone should get murdered all over a map of the USA.
that our aussie prime minister, Julia Gillard, is an atheist.
Genius tweet by Michael Moore:
"RT @MMFlint: If a Detroit Muslim put a map on the web w/crosshai rs on 20 pols, then 1 of them got shot, where would he b sitting right now? Just asking"
Answering this rhetorical should give any rational person an idea of Palin's culpability here.
Palin put the crosshairs on a map to mark the pols she wants "targeted," and she put it on her "SarahPac" site, to raise money. She's inviting people to give her money to help her "take out" her evil liberal opponents. Does it get any sicker than that? Could it be any more obvious? And yet you know they'll deny in the most insistent way what's as plain as the nose on your face. They demand that everyone be as gullible as the average FOX viewer. And 90 percent of the corporate media will oblige.
Retreat don't Reload for Gawds Sake. Retreat from your past hate speech, retreat from the truth about your hate mongering. Sarah never said Reload, she said Retreat. Don't you remember? Remember what SnowTwat said about remembering? It's in the Constitutions. Which one? All of them. Those gunsights are just happy faces with the eyes and mouths shot off , stupid.
How's this for an idea for a new episodes of The Simpsons?
Bart get's a new after-school job
As a Fox News pundit.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Conflict arises when Lisa's progressive blog (women's rights, environmental issues, etc.) becomes the target of Bart's part-time punditry. Homer becomes a teabagger. Marge aids Lisa in leaking info on a dastardly plot between Mr. Burns and Mayor Quimby to sell toxic waste to Springfield as lawn fertilizer and school cafeteria protein extender. Mr. Burns starts throwing money at Bart to control the narrative.
I can see it.
The lefter I go, the righter I get...
I also saw Bart planting suspicions between limbaugh, o'really, coulter et al
And trying to out-crazy becky.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Cartman gets a new school job.......as a fox news pundit.
http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/255334/...
Bart is a "good actor" ...and could maybe do Shepherd Smith...
but leave the Glenn Beck imitations to Eric Cartman.
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Funny, I had Ralph Wiggum in the Glen Beck role. Oh well...
Palin should be mentioned as one who has done more to fan the flames of hatred etc.
And why n\has no one mentioned the absence of Grandpa so far is yet another great question.
Seriously, where is John "Get off my Lawn" McCain...? Why isn't the senior Senator from Az out in front trying to smother the flames of hate?
I saw his wife last night on I believe CNN. He's too chicken to try to defend Palin.
If Palin is so right with her map, why did she have it pulled down yesterday?
If the Palin camp believes they are not in the wrong one little iota and believes they are so frgn' right, why do they have to lie about the map? Palin's spokeswoman Rebecca Mansour claims that these crosshairs were simply "surveyor's symbols." LIE.
When this map came out last year, many condemned it, including conservatives. I believe Elisabeth Hasselbeck, a big Palin supporter, condemned the map.
Jesus F. Christ
they're crosshairs
http://img252.imageshack.us/f/palinbullseye.jpg
When that's quitter calls them.
Is a solid circle divided into quadrants-two red and two white diagonally opposed. Think BMW symbol in red and white instead of blue and white. No crosshairs, no bullshit.
woodguy
This is the time to bring up and revisit each and every instance of violent, eliminationist rhetoric we've been subjected to in recent memory. Palin deserves special mention, of course, but she is not the lone hater here. We need to hammer on the "second amendment solutions" of Sharon Angle, the "ballots or bullets" rant by Rep. West's toadie, as well as all of the threatening signage and brandishing of weapons which the Teabaggers take such delight in. The corporate pundits need to have their noses rubbed in this particular excrement heap repeatedly and with great force.
The lefter I go, the righter I get...
Because 90% of the media is Republican/Conservative owned.
Thank goodness for the few liberal voices of truth and sanity that are still allowed.
Our Democracy is dying fast, but it ain't dead yet.
"Keith Olbermann Issues Special Comment On Arizona Shooting: 'Violence Has No Place In Democracy'
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/08/keit...
...than to see Sarah Palin utterly destroyed by this.... along with the Tea Party movement and the GOP that spawned both of these evils to begin with.
Government + the Federal Reserve = organized crime
Are you talkin' about a bad fire at her house with her in it...?
....or a big bomb at the next teaparty event perhaps?
or do you mean politically?
make it clear so you don't give anyone any bad ideas...
we sure wouldn't want anyone here to take you literally or anything like that.
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When female pundits suck on the teat of punditocracy
Does that make the lesbos?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Yes. That makes them all a Greek island.
How Sapphic of you.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Now we see the essential problem with the neutrality of CNN. They are doing the nation terrible disservice.
Does CNN have a feedback email address?
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Oh, here it is...
http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form1.html?39
...send them a note to remind them that neutrality is not always a good thing.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
CNN are the BIGGEST manipulators, John King, Eric Ericson, Candy Crowley, Dana Bash, Jessica Yellin, Gloria Borger are the MAJOR manipulators - compared to the Fox "news" are just a bunch of "raging rednecks".
Get your lemonade, watch the traitors hang
Congress' TREASON have no boundaries, so does M$M's brainwashing/sidetracking
Republicans for Voldemort
Government does work, just not for YOU. Government work ONLY on the behalf of the Tycoons
Repeal stupid
wrong thread... heh...
There was no correlation between the extreme anti-government rhetoric from the right wing and the blowing up a Federal building by Tim McVeigh
There was no correlation between the extreme anti-abortion rhetoric from the right wing and the assassination of Dr. Tiller.
There was no correlation between the extreme anti “Democrat congress” rhetoric from the right wing and the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords.
Etc, etc, etc...
No, none, no correlation whatsoever.
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://du...
it's called covering your ass. CYA
Correlation? Certainly. Causal? Debatable.
Are they pandering to the violent to gain support, or does their pandering cause their supporters to be violent?
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"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
I would say quite a bit from column 1 (and that’s why they do it) and 1 or 2 from column 2 (which is why they shouldn’t).
"big government" and currency stuff, and other libertarian issues, also deny that McVeigh did OKC.
CYA indeed.
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
How could you say reporters have fallen down on the job "in the last two years", Heather? The right has been stoking this fire at least since Regan, if not McCarthy, and the media has rewarded them with false equality. If you don't believe it, get a hold of a copy of Andy Griffith in "A Face in the Crowd". Same party, same evil lies.
"Fox News is a cancer on our Nation" -- Me
'Taking back America.'
'We want our Country back.'
'Democrats are Nazi, Socialists wanting to destroy this country', and so on and on and on....
Fox News, Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck and other 'Religious' , 'Conservative', 'Patriots', 'Family Values Voters' can't escape liability for their part in this any longer. What happened to Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is a consequence of this channels efforts. They have demonstrated their power to influence their followers.
The hypocrisy is overwhelming.
No matter how cynical we get, we just can't keep up anymore.
This country needs to catch a wakeup and re-examine it's oft ''professed' values.
In many countries this would be an automatic call for rolling mass action protests in the streets, but in the 'best country in the history of the world', the 'shining city on a hill', 'American exceptionalism' is the order of the day.
If we let this pass, Fox News and all that it stands for will know for sure that they have changed the debate in this country forever.
Then where the hell is she? Why is she running away? I want to see her on Fox defending the use of her map, and I want to hear from her why she selected or approved the use of the crosshairs.
Surveyor symbols my ass.
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Jesse Kelly of AZ ran against Giffords and encouraged others to use an M16 to remove her from Office.
WHY IS Mr. KELLY SILENT?
Did Jared Lee Loughner ever attend Jesse Kelly's shoot an M16 fundraisin g event?
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Starve the WAR Beast...
... Save the World.
Palin's "reality" show is kaput, her book sales are in the toilet and all but the dumdest of us are wise to her bullshit so I don't give a flyin' fuck if the blow jobs on CNN are carrying this stupid,fear mongering,racist's water for her FU*K sister "Sludge" Palin! The gal makes me want to puke! One final note about Palin: I bet she has a dick than Todd does. LOL
The candidate she backed for Senator from Alaska lost to a write-in candidate. That takes talent.
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I was hoping for a Palin run in 2012, just for shits and giggles. Oh well, after this, probably not. Oh wait, it's 2011, age of teh internets and blogs. Yea, she'll be ok.
Here is a brief list of recent wretched wrongs by leading Republicans:
SARA PALIN, put bulls-eye targets on 20 Representatives including Gabby Giffords,.. and said publicly that it was time, not to retreat, but to RE-LOAD.
JESSE KELLY, campaigned against Congresswoman Giffords with an event in which he encouraged his supporters to join him firing machine guns.
Congressman ALLEN WEST, during his successful campaign, told his supporters that they should make his opponent afraid to come out of his home.
SHARON ANGLE spoke of "Second Amendment solutions," implying the use of firearms rather than discourse, political persuasion, and voting on issues.
TEA PARTY leaders encouraged wide-spread circulation of a Jefferson quote about blood and tyranny and the tree of liberty, while casually carrying visible weapons to political rallies.
GLENN BECK obsesses nearly as strangely as Mr. Loughner did about gold and debt. He also wistfully joked about killing Michael Moore.
BILL O'REILLY blithely repeated "Tiller the Killer" until the phrase was burned into the minds of his viewers.
Tea Party members across the country regularly threatened and bullied Democratic Congressmen at town hall meetings during the development of Health Reform legislation in 2009
RUSH LIMBAUGH rants almost DAILY about how Obama and his administration will bring about the complete ruination of American Democracy... and among many other sins, has railed against "femi-nazis"f or years.
I challenge anyone to come up with a comparable list of grievences against Liberals.
Who does senator fudgy mcdepends represent?
Arizona
And where did the killing take place?
Arizona
And wasn't sarah plain and tall mcdepends running mate?
And didn't she of the voice who could neuter tree frogs have a rather threatening website?
Nah...no connection here...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
These folks commenting on Sarah's Facebook page really take the cake. I stayed just long enough to copy and paste the crap below. They are decrying the liberals' attacks on Sarah yet have the audacity to post sh*t like this:
Yes lady, this attack was all fabricated because we on the Left want nothing more than to destroy this country just as fast as we can. Health care reform just isn't working fast enough -- we can't wait another 4 years -- and anyone with a brain knows that those Republican saviors in Congress, led by Sister Sarah herself, ruined our plan at total domination of the auto industry by forcing Obama to sell most of the government's stock in General Motors, so we needed to give our Operation Destroy America plan a little kick in the ass. And I was so looking forward to Obama himself marching into the Corvette assembly plant and personally dismantling the production line for that car because, well, it's just too damn fast and guzzles too damn much gas. I dreamed every night of Obama forcing people like you to buy and drive $40,000 Chevy Volts. Dammit, you figured us out.
Seriously....You are just as ignorant as Mrs. Palin. You both certainly deserve each other.
A woman had a bullet pass through her skull and Sarah and her minions fall over themselves to make Palin the victim. These people have no shame.
and what lengths did Palin's staff go to come up with 'surveyor's symbols' for her 'target map'?
Good grief...how stunningly stupid does Palin & her camp think most people are?
Point...Palin loves, is familiar with & uses guns.
Point...Palin is not a surveyor.
Point...most people wouldn't know a surveyor's symbol if it hit them in the face.
Point...considering the above point, why would anyone reference said symbol when almost no one would 'get it'?
Point...Rep. Giffords in her response to said 'target map', took the meaning to be 'in the crosshairs of a gun'. If there was a misunderstanding of said 'target map', why did Palin's camp not refute that 'intention' at that time? Secondly, why did no one involved with Gifford's interview, at that time, challenge her interpretation & remark that this was supposed to be a map with 'surveyor's symbols'?
Point...subsequent tweets/postings from Palin, after her 'target map' was introduced on the internet, used such words as 'reload' and 'bullseye' to reference said website. No such terms are used by surveyors in reference to their symbols.
Point...I don't know the timing, but shortly after the shootings...Palin's target map was removed. Now, let's be grownups here...there is just no pretending that if there was absolutely nothing wrong with Palin's 'target map', then said map would still be up, without any need for guilt or explanation.
Sarah...along with allowing violent & threatening rhetoric to be spewed during your campaign gatherings, without the slightest hint of you trying to calm things down...this sudden walkback on your own website seems a tad (and I'm being generous here) dishonest, nevermind totally irresponsible.
http://img252.imageshack.us/i/palinbullseye.jpg/
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
If there is any justice left in this country, one of the victims families will bring a lawsuit against Palin for her part in this. She drew a map of crosshairs on her enemies, and one of her followers carried out the work. Time for some consequences to her actions.
SERIOUS consequences.
their person in the ground in AZ was on the phone commenting on the sage words by Tucson's Sheriff. Her comment: she basically relayed the anger and despair among the tea party because they felt the sheriff's words were a personal attack and intolerable mischaracterization. So even when the sane manage to speak, the M$M will make sure the insane have the last word a get to frame the debate.
In other words, five people are dead, a few more are in critical condition among them a Dem congresswoman with a bullet to the head. And CNN's concern turned towards the feelings of the tea party. I had to turn off the TV.
Unbelievable.
CTHULHU 2012 "Why vote for a lesser evil?"
It's not their fault that their target is not dead.
to be right...
has taken a very dangerous & sick precedent over being humane.
even when the sane manage to speak, the M$M will make sure the insane have the last word a get to frame the debate
So far that is exactly what CNN has been up to. No lessons to be learned here, except for everyone to tone down the rhetoric, please drive through...
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
... there was the time when I was beating my head to understand WHY CNN continue to show/mention Palin AGAIN and AGAIN and AGAIN and AGAIN and AGAIN and AGAIN and AGAIN - when the Presidential elections were OVER and was more than OBVIOUS who the losers are.
Get your lemonade, watch the traitors hang
Congress' TREASON have no boundaries, so does M$M's brainwashing/sidetracking
Republicans for Voldemort
Government does work, just not for YOU. Government work ONLY on the behalf of the Tycoons
Repeal stupid
I hate the media!!
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
watch Al Jazera - SAD :-(
Get your lemonade, watch the traitors hang
Congress' TREASON have no boundaries, so does M$M's brainwashing/sidetracking
Republicans for Voldemort
Government does work, just not for YOU. Government work ONLY on the behalf of the Tycoons
Repeal stupid
As yet there is no evidence that Loughner knew anything about Sarah Palin or crosshairs. The operative phrase here is "as yet." The suspect is supposedly not talking but if he did the sheriff is in a better position to know what Loughner had to say than any pundit.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
True, it could all be a fascinating coincidence.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
with my fellow Canadian on this one.
All the Villager Capos are terrified of the public blowback on Palin and are trampling over themselves defending their Village Idiot Godmother. These dysfunctional poseurs are like the Mafia, except they are really incompetent.
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
The assassin might have gotten his ideas from some other place, and not from Palin or Bachmann, or Beck, or someone else, but there is still a powerful lesson to be learned by these people, and by the M$M for not addressing the violent rhetoric by the wing-nuts. If the wing-nuts do not re-tool, then they are totally beyond hope. That much is for sure.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Ape-Man.
are you KIDDING ??? Have some self-respect.
Get your lemonade, watch the traitors hang
Congress' TREASON have no boundaries, so does M$M's brainwashing/sidetracking
Republicans for Voldemort
Government does work, just not for YOU. Government work ONLY on the behalf of the Tycoons
Repeal stupid
someone is shot and killed.
Sister Sarah may not have pulled the trigger or was the exact ignition for the shooter but she and many more lit the fuse and profited from the outcome.
CNN, FOX, MSNBC before 6 PM all counted their money while the fuse burned...
...he uses big words like 'particularly' and 'delicatessen.' -- Jack
"These pundits know they've completely fallen down on their jobs for the last two years with the way they've covered the right wing and they're giving themselves cover here as well."
These pundits know in their bones that they've done a great job for the last two years. They always work hard and do a great job. They've internalized the values of the Village. Every dime they make is honestly earned, in their esteemed opinion, and every single one of their esteemed opinions is worth every dime they make, although their take-home pay isn't measure in dimes. I think the real denomination they consider is closer to $10,000 and multiples thereof, as in an hourly wage for a speech to a business group or something "charitable" like that.
Don't fall into the trap of thinking that these folk have doubts about what they are doing on a day to day basis. They pride themselves on being realists and professionals. Too bad they live in the Village hall of mirrors. That makes their "reality" and "professional standards" the opposite of what those terms might mean down here on the street.
And pundits don't ever spend much time down here on the street.
to CARRYING/PUSHING their Bosses agenda "one step further" every time - pushing the limit of "corporate PROTECTIONIST lies".
Get your lemonade, watch the traitors hang
Congress' TREASON have no boundaries, so does M$M's brainwashing/sidetracking
Republicans for Voldemort
Government does work, just not for YOU. Government work ONLY on the behalf of the Tycoons
Repeal stupid
After all Gabrielle Gifford specifically expressed her concerns about Palins "reload" comments and the gun crosshair on her district almost a year ago, March 25th 2010 on Meet The Press saying. "Our office corner has really become an area where the tea party movement congregates and the rhetoric is incredibly heated. this is a situation where people don't -- they really need to realize that rhetoric and firing people up and even things, for example, on sarah palin's targeted list. we have the crosshairs of a gunfight over our district. will people do that? We've got to realize there are consequences to that action."
They showed the prior conversation again today about 8:50 into the video here
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032608/vp/409882...
Palin needs to step up and take responsibility now, but I'm not holding my breath.
Goodnight, Frau Blücher
it is my understanding she took her crosshairs page down from her website; if no correlation why take it down....even dumb ass sarah knows she bears some culpability
They were strongly proclaiming that there was no evidence that the shooter was inspired by Palin/Teabagger hate speech. How the hell could they know, the event just happened and the investigation was just beginning. CNN Media Whores with no shame.
Just so happen to have caught this CNN broadcast Saturday afternoon. The commentator asked if either thought that Palin's target map might have played a role in influencing the gunman and in perfect unison the two women exclaimed "oh no", and shook their heads gestering no in perfect sequence (left to right). Had it been a pairs sporting event I’m sure they would have scored a 10.
West Coast Wade
Just so happen to have caught this CNN broadcast Saturday afternoon. The commentator asked if either thought that Palin's target map might have played a role in influencing the gunman and in perfect unison the two women exclaimed oh no, and shook their heads no in perfect sequence. Had it been a pairs sporting event I’m sure they would have scored a 10.
West Coast Wade
Palin dared people to shoot any of these members she put in the crosshairs. She has blood on her hands for her stupidity.
a SPOT ON.
Get your lemonade, watch the traitors hang
Congress' TREASON have no boundaries, so does M$M's brainwashing/sidetracking
Republicans for Voldemort
Government does work, just not for YOU. Government work ONLY on the behalf of the Tycoons
Repeal stupid
Well of course they did. That would be uncivil to tell the truth on a news show. Let's just pretend that they all do it and move on........once again. After all nobody likes finger pointing. Especially the guilty, and their protectors.
But she did load, cock and aim the gun.
Is there anyone - Any One - on TV dumber than Blitzer?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd2ySV7AfgM
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